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Glossary Selection
Achiote | |||
 | A tropical American evergreen shrub or small tree, called aBixa orellana, having heart-shaped leaves and showy, rose-pink or sometimes white flowers. Also called lipstick tree. The seed of this plant, used as a coloring and sometimes as a flavoring, especially in Latin American cuisine. A yellowish, rust red dyestuff obtained from the seed aril of this plant, used especially to dye fabric and to color food products a bright orange such as margarine, oil and cheese. | ||
Annatto | |||
 | A tropical American evergreen shrub or small tree, called aBixa orellana, having heart-shaped leaves and showy, rose-pink or sometimes white flowers. Also called lipstick tree. The seed of this plant, used as a coloring and sometimes as a flavoring, especially in Latin American cuisine. ),( A yellowish, rust red dyestuff obtained from the seed aril of this plant, used especially to dye fabric and to color food products a bright orange such as margarine, oil and cheese. | ||
Agar-Agar | |||
| Agar-agar is typically sold as packaged strips of washed and dried seaweed, or in powdered form. Raw agar is white and semi-translucent. For making jelly, it is boiled in water at a concentration of about 0.7-1% w/v (e.g. a 7 gram packet of powder into 1 litre of water would be 0.7%) until the solids dissolve, after which sweeteners, flavouring, colouring, and pieces of fruit may be added. The agar-agar may then be poured into molds or incorporated into other desserts, such as a jelly layer on a cake. | |||
Arame | |||
 | In Japanese, it means "the rough maiden". It is a social plant that grows in association with two other seaweeds, hiziki and ecklonia. | ||
Arrowroot | |||
 | A delicate starch used to thicken gravies and desserts, derived from a West Indian water plan. Interchangeable with potato starch and corn starch. Though more expensive, it is considered to be more nutritous by some and give more clear and limpid results according to Julia Child. | ||
Azafran | |||
| It is yellow Saffron, from the Stigmas of a purple crocus flower. | |||
Arroz Negro | |||
| Arroz negro is a typical Spanish paella cooked with squid and other seafood. The rice attains its distinctive color from being seasoned with the squid's ink. | |||
Arroces | |||
| Rice dishes | |||
Almejas a la Marinera | |||
| Clams in white wine, garlic, onion and parsley sauce. | |||
Angels on Horseback | |||
| An HORS D'OEUVRE of oysters wrapped in bacon that are broiled, baked or grilled and served on buttered toast points. | |||